The Stockman’s Grave Breezes stir the bowgada scrub York gums nod and sway Sheep may graze across the mound That is a stockman’s grave No cross, no name at the head of the mound Only little while stones surround The fading scars on the bushland tell How this stockman drowned Bush bird makes her warning […]
William Schofield Randall – Evangelist of the Goldfields
This wonderful story and photographs have been shared with the kind permission of Brian Randall- William Schofield Randall The evangelist on the Goldfields of Western Australia Appointed in 1895 to the opening of the Salvation Army Corps in Kalgoorlie and the Great Boulder With a journey of 140 miles before him, Lieutenant William Schofield Randall […]
A Ghan who did a woowing go :
The Sun, Kalgoorlie: 24 March 1907, page 9 MARRIAGE OF A RUE DE BROOKMAN RESIDENT. The foundations of goldfields society were shaken to their bedrock bottom on Wednesday morning, last, when the “Kalgoorlie Miner” issued the announcement of the marriage of a well known Afghan, to a more notoriously known French woman, of the ‘Rue […]
Charles Robert Ogilvie ‘Jack’ Cumbrae-Stewart – grave tales
Charles Robert Ogilvie Cumbrae-Stewart was born on 17 February 1867 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. He was the son of Francis Edward STEWART and Agnes Catherine PARK. His father Francis Edward Stewart came to New Zealand as a child with his parents in the 1830’s from Bristol, England. There he met and married on the […]
Tragedy and Bravery on the Black Range
The Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial currently has the names engraved of 1492 people who have lost their lives due to a workplace accident on a mine. Each and every name has a story to tell. This story is just one of many. On Anzac Day 1932 an accident occurred at the Old Oroya GM (near […]
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